Fertility: The ovaries play a key role in reproductive decline, new research shows
A woman's fertility usually begins to decline in her mid-30s. This means the chances of becoming pregnant decreases drastically each month.
Oct 25, 2025
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News on egg cells
Imaging technique reveals an ecosystem that determines how eggs mature and ovaries age
The ticking of the biological clock is especially loud in the ovaries—the organs that store and release a woman's eggs. From age 25 to 40, a woman's chance of conceiving each month decreases drastically.
Oct 9, 2025
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Proof-of-concept study creates functional eggs from human skin cells to treat infertility
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning skin cells into eggs capable of producing early human embryos. The research is published in Nature ...
Sep 30, 2025
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Discovery of low power cellular housekeeping in human oocytes could boost IVF success
Human eggs are some of the most patient cells in the body, lying dormant for decades until needed. A study published in The EMBO Journal shows that the cells deliberately slow the activity of their internal waste disposal ...
Jul 16, 2025
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DNA from the mother and father are handled differently in the newly formed embryo, researchers discover
Researchers at the Center for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO) aim to find out why so many early embryos fail in their development. New insights into how maternal and paternal DNA is replicated during the initial ...
Mar 27, 2025
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Psychological stress may cause food-induced symptoms in IBS
Scientists have discovered that psychological stress can induce immune responses to food that can cause symptoms when that food is eaten again, findings that demonstrate the potential role of stress in symptoms of irritable ...
Mar 17, 2025
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TLE6 identified as a protein associated with infertility in male mice
Genetic changes are a significant cause of infertility, impacting over 15% of the global population. TLE6, a major protein involved in early embryonic development, is known to affect female fertility. In a recent study, researchers ...
Jan 16, 2025
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IVF: Chances of successful pregnancy are the same with embryo transfer on day three or five, study finds
In IVF treatment, embryos are traditionally transferred to the uterus three days after fertilization. Due to improvements in laboratory techniques, this is now also possible after five days. It was assumed that this increases ...
Sep 16, 2024
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Sunscreen won't stop you making vitamin D—here's what you should know
It's all kicking off on social media, again. This time it's about wearing sunscreen. The argument began when Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, raised concerns that daily sunscreen ...
May 16, 2024
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Chicken eggs could provide low-cost opportunities for cancer imaging research
In a paper published in npj Imaging, King's researchers have assessed the use of fertilized chicken eggs as an alternative model that can resolve both ethical and economic issues for preclinical cancer research.
Jan 4, 2024
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